And then there is Steve McQueen’s “Hunger,” a meditation on the IRA hunger strike that made Bobby Sands a national hero in Northern Ireland. I spent a weekend in Belfast while I was overseas this summer and remember coming across

Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling” will be the centerpiece of the 46th New York Film Festival, while Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler” will close the event. They join the previously announced opener, Laurent Cantet’s Cannes winner “The Class.”